December 13, 2022
Saugata Roy spoke under Rule 193 on the efforts by the government to rewrite and distort history
To speak on a matter of public importance. In recent times there has been an effort by the government and the ruling party at the centre to change and distort the history of the country. The Home Minister has said that history should be re-written anew and he is referring to the Mughal age. He says that the Mughals are invaders forgetting that the Mughals gave a stable government to India for 200 years. The Taj Mahal, The Lal Qila and the Jama Masjid were all constructed during their times. Sir, we strongly believe that the culture of India is not a Hindu culture. It’s a composite culture. We strongly believe that there should not be a ‘Hindu history’ or ‘Muslim history’ or ‘British history’. There should be an Indian history. This distortion of history is not only in the change of names of cities, Allahabad suddenly becomes Prayagraj. Aurangabad suddenly becomes Shambhaji Nagar. This re-writing of history was during the communist people’s time. The most important thing to mention is that during the Amrit Kaal of our independence is to write the history of our freedom struggle properly. You should write clearly that Savarkar asked clemency from the British. It is the truth. It should be mentioned that Guru Golwalkar refused to participate in the 1942 Quit India movement. This constant effort to distort history of India, to make us forget that the hindutvawalas did not participate in the freedom struggle to belittle Jawaharlal Nehru’s contribution. Nehru spent nine years in the British jail. None of these hindutvawalas including Shyamaprasad Mukherjee , they did not spend time. Golwalkar positively refused to participate.
এসো হে আর্য, এসো অনার্য, হিন্দু-মুসলমান।
এসো এসো আজ তুমি ইংরাজ, এসো এসো খৃস্টান।
এসো ব্রাহ্মণ, শুচি করি মন ধরো হাত সবাকার।
এসো হে পতিত, হোক অপনীত সব অপমানভার।
মার অভিষেকে এসো এসো ত্বরা, মঙ্গলঘট হয় নি যে ভরা
সবার-পরশে-পবিত্র-করা তীর্থনীরে—
আজি ভারতের মহামানবের সাগরতীরে ।।
